Ball Four and Doonesbury
Mine are Ball Four and Doonesbury.

Raining
Of course: how utterly appropriate for it to be raining during this tour.

Er, What About Two Guys, A Girl
and a Pizza Place?

It Broke My Heart When Mick Left The Clash
Seriously. They'd made so much great music in such a short period of time, it seemed like they could do it forever.

Agree with @Jorge about the Squeeze singles collection. And the sad thing is that perhaps the best two were the last two, "Black Coffee in Bed," and 'Annie Get Your Gun."

Mirror Observations
Noel, your "different times" observation about the 2010 Butler-Michigan score vs. the 1990 LMU-Michigan St. mirrors Scott's observation at the end of the Winning Time about the mid-90s NBA being slow and defensive-oriented but being more wide-open now.

Finally, a Reason to Watch TBS
At least since they decided to not be flagship station for the Braves and instead followed ESPN and FOX by showing the Yankees and Red Sox every week.

Let me toss out a plug for STAND IN THE FIRE as an entry point. I think that it's one of the most underrated live albums ever.

I miss Warren Zevon as much as I miss any artist who died way too soon. He was dark, crazy and brilliantly humorous.

"I'd rather feel bad than not feel anything at all."

That was me. Same thing when Lou Reed did it.

Jackson Browne & Jimmy Carter
Two more real people mentioned on STAND IN THE FIRE, one of the greatest live albums ever released:

Those Franken & Davis Skits
When I used to come home as a teenager on a Saturday Night, drunk and/or stoned, specifically to watch SNL (with my dad already asleep in front of the TV), I used to HATE it when a Franken & Davis skit came on. They were just so forced, when the rest of the show had a such a natural,…

Such bollocks on this thread. I'm an original REM fan who thought that MONSTER, REVEAL & (especially) AROUND THE SUN were boring, but I loved UP, ACCELERATE and last year's double-live album.

Forget replicators: imagine the effect that Transporters would have had on the economy! No commutes, instant delivery of items, easy access to vacation spots.

Chips? You mean, like, potato chips??

If there wasn't any money in TNG, then what did all of those poker chips represent?

Sex With Data = Death
Maybe that's what we've been missing all these years: the connection between Yar having sex with Data and her subsequent death.

One of the Great Shit-Stirrers in Music History
Malcolm was one of the few people who you could truly say helped alter the course of pop culture. Nothing was ever the same after the first flush of punk, and while it no doubt would have existed without Malcolm's evil ideology (the time was ripe for SOMETHING, and the…

Dude, pre-fab band or not, NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS was truly revolutionary and felt truly dangerous when it came out. And 30+ fucking years later, it's as solid as rock and roll album as has ever been released. Period.